Clarkson’s Farm star Kaleb Cooper told JD Vance’s security to ‘f*** off’, during the US Vice President’s trip to the Cotswolds last week.
The divisive politician’s visit with his family has attracted mass criticism among locals, who complained of disruption caused by Vance’s extensive security team.
Among them was Jeremy Clarkson, who revealed that the one–mile no fly zone set around Vance’s manor house rental had impeded the drones filming scenes for his Amazon Prime show, Clarkson’s Farm.
Writing about the visit in The Sunday Times, the Top Gear star, 65, explained that both he and farmer Kaleb, 27, had let loose some choice language at the security teams attempting to derail their work duties.
Jeremy explained how several roads were blocked off and cars pulled over in order to allow Vance’s huge convoy through.
However, he revealed that when Kaleb was instructed to pull over his tractor in the wet weather, he offered a rather foul-mouthed reply.
He wrote: ‘[Vance] arrived in a cavalcade of 27 massive black American SUVs and this was escorted by a shoal of British police remoras on motorcycles whose job was to shoo everyone out of the way.
‘One of the people who they ordered to pull over was Kaleb Cooper, my tractor driver, but it was starting to rain and he urgently needed to get his load of wheat into the shed, so he invited his tormentor to eff off. And carried on regardless.’
Kaleb complained about the incident earlier this week, in the comments section of one of Jeremy’s Instagram posts showing the no-fly zone.
The farmhand – who has his own land and has spun out a successful entertainment career of his own – fumed that his wheat had been soaked after he’d been held up by Vance’s security team.
He wrote: ‘My wheat got wet in the trailer last night as the convoy stopped me in the rain in Chippy.
‘I could easily have went on my way and got it in the shed without getting in the way.’
While quipping about Vance’s conspicuous presence in the area, he added: ‘[If] he had just drove around in a VW Polo nobody would know who he was.’
Meanwhile, Jeremy appeared to take notes from his right hand man, as he revealed that he also shared a profanity-laden chat with one of Vance’s security guards.
Detailing how the guard had told him he wasn’t allowed to fly his drone due to the restrictions, the presenter explained he had simply replied: ‘F*** off’ – to which the security man said: ‘OK.’
It comes just hours after Kaleb announced the arrival of his third child, sharing the first photo his little one and revealing their sex and name.
Taking to Instagram on Saturday, he revealed his fianceé Taya had given birth to a baby boy on Thursday evening, who they had named Ashton.
He shared a snap of his son wrapped up in a blanket and a knitted hat, as well as another shot of him tucking into a Chinese takeaway in the hospital while Taya cuddled Ashton.
In the accompanying caption, Kaleb proudly declared: ‘Baby number 3. everyone meet Ashton weighing 6.13lb born 14th august at 6:28pm at chipping norton maternity. Ps don’t worry I bought the amazing midwife’s a Chinese as well’.
Jeremy first spilled the beans that his right hand man had become a father for the third time in his column for The Sun, revealing how Kaleb had reacted when his partner notified him she was in labour.
The TV star explained how Kaleb told Taya to hang on and he would be there as soon as he had finished harvesting the field.
Joking that the response was ‘very farmerish’, Jeremy added that his farming companion still managed to finish in record time to dash off and be by Taya’s side as they met the newest member of their family.
Kaleb and Taya are childhood sweethearts having got together in 2016, with Kaleb then proposing on Christmas Day 2022.
The couple went on to welcome their first son Oscar, four, in March 2021 and daughter Willa, two, in June 2023.
Previously opening about becoming a father, Kaleb confessed he felt ‘useless’ during Oscar’s birth, as he felt he didn’t know what he was doing.
He told The Times Magazine: ‘It was f***ing terrible, because when I’m helping that cow, I know exactly what I’m doing. I can bring the calf around to the mum and so on.
‘Now, when Taya was giving birth, I felt useless. I’m seeing her in pain having one of my kids.’
Kaleb added that he was glad to have had children while relatively young, as he could still be ‘energetic’ when they were older.
He said: ‘I wanted a girl and boy, which I’ve got and am very grateful. Then when I get older I can go down the pub with them, or out on the tractors, and I can still be energetic.’
Asked if he could be having more fun now, he said: ‘I’ll make all the money now, hopefully have a farm, then chill out, go partying and be in Ibiza, though I can’t think of anything worse than being in a nightclub.’